Sun Never Sets Empire, Fog City, Prime Minister's Office.
The Prime Minister of the Empire, Arthur Balfour, had gathered a group of high-level cabinet members to discuss the current situation.
The hundreds of years of dominance made the Sun Never Sets Empire like a bandit, plundering a large amount of wealth in the world and making them extremely powerful.
Especially after controlling the world's most vast and rich colonies, they could even find a sufficient market for their products without developing new technologies.
This caused the industrial technology and strength of the Empire to gradually fall behind the other emerging powers. However, relying on the monopoly of the colonial market, they still lived very well.
Even the products of the Germanic Empire were cheaper and more expensive due to the improvement of technology.
However, the problem was that the inability to enter the colony of the Sun Never Sets also greatly affected the sales of goods in the Germanic Empire.
Under such circumstances, the conflict between the two sides naturally became more and more intense.
In addition, plundering the colonies had become the foundation of the empire's strength. The world colonization system they established had become an important means for the Sun Never Sets Empire to maintain its hegemony.
This also made the German Empire extremely hostile to countries that threatened their hegemony.
Any country that threatened their hegemony would be mercilessly destroyed by them.
There were already clear examples, such as Napoleon the Great and the Russian Empire.
However, it was now the Germanic Empire's turn.
"Gentlemen, I find it increasingly difficult to understand the young emperor of the Germanic Empire. As soon as he took office, he actually stopped the construction of the most important two-class battleship in the German Empire's navy. What is the purpose of this?" Arthur Balfour asked.
"Prime Minister, the financial pressure of the Germanic Empire has always been very great, and naval construction, especially the construction of capital ships, is the most expensive. Perhaps the German Empire couldn't sustain itself financially, so it chose to stop building!”Chancellor of the Exchanges Austin Chamberlain said.
"That's possible! However, I'm worried that there will be other problems. Could there be a conspiracy behind this?”Arthur Balfour asked.
"Prime Minister, no matter what schemes the Germanic people have, you only need to know that the Imperial Royal Navy is the most powerful in the world. There were fifty battleships in the Imperial Navy, both in service and under construction. Even if the Germanic forces hadn't stopped building those ten battleships, they still wouldn't have half of what we had.
Now that they had stopped building battleships and only had fourteen battleships left, they were no match for the Imperium!
In addition, the Imperial Navy had already made a breakthrough in their research on the next level of battleships. It was estimated that they could start construction next year. This would allow the Imperial Navy to have a very powerful battleship. The Imperial Navy would continue to lead the world's naval development. Under such circumstances, the navies of other countries are even less of a threat to us.
Whether it was the Germanic Empire or other countries, it was the same!
In the eyes of the Royal Navy, there were only two types of navies in the world. One was the Royal Navy itself, and the other was the navies of other countries!”
The admiral, John Fisher, looked proud.
Arthur Balfour nodded repeatedly.
Indeed, the Imperial Navy of the Sun Never Sets Empire was the most powerful navy in the world.
They had been the rulers of the sea for hundreds of years.
They didn't think that they would lose their position as the overlord this time.
"Gentlemen, we all firmly believe that the German Empire is the strongest. The empire's dominance was unbreakable. However, the empire had to admit that the rise of the Germanic Empire on the European continent had already posed a considerable threat to the empire. Therefore, from now on, the empire would strengthen the suppression of the Germanic Empire. Once they were discovered to be showing signs of rising, they had to be dealt with. He absolutely could not let the lesson of the first Gaul Empire happen again!”Arthur Balfour ordered.
"Yes, Prime Minister!" The ministers of the Sun Never Sets Empire all replied.
At that time, Napoleon led the first Gaul Empire to rise rapidly, occupying the entire European continent and becoming the overlord here.
Napoleon's firm stance that he would never allow the goods of the Sun Never Sets Empire to enter the European continent dealt a heavy blow to the Sun Never Sets Empire.
Even with its powerful navy, the Sun Never Sets Empire was able to ensure the safety of its homeland and use its navy to blockade the First Empire of Gaul.
They even joined forces with other European countries to besiege the First Empire of Gaul.
However, it took more than ten years and a lot of resources and financial resources to deal with the first Gaul Empire.
If such a thing happened again, the Sun Never Sets Empire would probably pay an even greater price.
This also made the ministers of the Empire of the Sun Never Sets unwilling to see the rise of the German Empire and become the first empire of Gaul.
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